Shoe-display device.



- E. D. GOULD. SHOE DISPLAY DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 3. 191a.

Patented May1916.

THB COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 60., WASHINGTON, D.

UNITED s'ra'rns mam mea EDGAR I). GOULD, F ABINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR. IO- REGAL SHOE COM,,

PANY, or PORTLAND, MAINE, A conrona'r on or MAINE.

SHOE-DISPLAY DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented Biay 30,- 1916,

Application filed October 3, 1913. Serial No. 793,255.

I Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to advertising or display devices and is intended to provide a simple and convenient means for exhibiting a boot or shoe in such a manner as to reproduce or simulate the appearance of the boot or shoe when normally worn on the foot.

To this end the invention consists essentially in a device adapted to be inserted or sustained inside the shoe, and constructed and arranged to permit the suspension of the lower part of a trousers leg in normal relation to the shoe when in actual use.

I11 general the device comprises a base member, preferably in the form of a last, insertible into the shoe which serves to sustain an upright or standard, which is provided at its upper end with a suitably shaped block or trousers leg holder so arranged that the trousers leg suspended therefrom drapes naturally over the shoe in imitation of a trousers leg and shoe as normally worn. In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated the preferred form of embodying the principle of this invention in which;

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete device as actually used; Fig. 2 is a similar view with the suspended trousers leg omitted to show the construction and ar-,

rangement of the interior parts; Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the upright and trousers leg holder; and Fig. 4 is a detail view in vertical section showing the means for detachably connecting the trousers leg to its holder.

In the practice of the invention I use any suitable base capable of being inserted into the shoe, to form a support for the superimposed structure, such as a last a which is provided with a socket or hole a in its heel portion adapted to receive the lower end I) of an upright standard 6. This standard is preferably made of transverse width, approximately equal to the width of the human leg, so as to distend the trousers leg laterally in order to more perfectly reproduce the appearance of the trousers leg as actually worn. The upper end of the standard-is preferably formed with two dowel pins 6 adapted to be inserted in the bottom of the trousers holder or block a, which is preferably inclined to the vertical plane through the interposition of the wedge shaped block 0 on its under side.

The trousers holder or block 0 is preferably oval or elliptical in contour, and is provided with suitable devices, such as the pins 0 for the attachment of the trousers leg (Z. The top of the trousers leg may be folded inwardly and provided with suitable stifiening to receive a series of metallic sockets d arranged to correspond with the projecting pins or ball fastener 0 so that the trousers leg maybe readily attached or detached. I

prefer to provide also an overhanging platform or plaque c of oval shape, which may be provided with a block 6 in position to engage the heel of a shoe to be placed on said platform for display, if desired. The block e may also be slotted as at 6 to exhibit a display card 6 in case it is desired touse such card in connection with the device instead of the shoe display.

The trousers legd should be so cut and suspended as to hang normally across the shoe f, precisely as a trousers leg naturally drapes over the shoe on the human foot.

It will be seen that the standard 6, the

base member a and the supporting top or trousers leg holder are all quickly detachable from each other, and the device may instantly be removed by simply lifting the standard 6 out of its supporting socket.

What I claim is:

1. A display device for boots and shoes embracing in its construction a supporting base adapted to be inserted in a shoe to be displayed, an upright standard and a trousers leg support secured to said standard in position to permit the trousers leg to be suspended therefrom to hang around the standard and drape over said shoe in imitation of a trousers leg as actually worn, substantially as described. 7 g

2. A trousers leg support embracing a base consisting of a last insertible into a end of said standard and means for detachform a display platform at the top of said ably connecting said trousers leg With its standard, substantially as describe 1') support substantially as described. v In witness whereof, I have subscribed the V 3. In a device of the class described the above specification.

combination with the base, the vertical EDGAR D. GOULD.

standard, the inclined block and a trousers In the presence of leg detachably secured thereto and an over- C. H. OSBORNE, hanging plaque located above said block to E. P. CLARK.

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